Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype phragmotic major worker. Type-locality: Kenya: (Lake) Elmenteita, 20.xii.1945 (S. Patrizi). Type-depository: IEUB.
Type notes:Patrizi, 1948: 176, states that the holotype is a queen (“femmina”), adding “maschio ed operaia ignoti”. The specimen described is actually a phragmotic major worker.